Tree planting to celebrate Shopfront’s 5th birthday (2001)
Construction Management students building at Addison Road Community Centre (1998)
Visual Communications students present their prototype for The Community Living Kit to Community Connections Australia (2006)
MBA students strategic planning with Global Food Relief (2007)
Katrina Yu and Lyn Collingwood produced New Theatre’s festival of Arab-Australian culture (2006)
Terry Olsen dances at Shopfront’s 10th birthday party (2006)
‘Stand Your Ground’ performances with Pact Youth Theatre and young people from Redfern-Waterloo (2001 & 2002)
‘The Big Issue’ vendor tests the 2nd prototype of a multi-purpose bag designed by Nicola Hunt to assist homeless and unemployed people (2005)
Masters of Planning students conceptualise an Ecologically Sustainable Living Centre with the Wolli Creek Preservation Society (2001)
Spokespeople from the Muslim Womens’ Association do media training with Radio 2SER post-September 11 (2001).
Neighbourhood Centre coordinators and Shopfront launch the ‘Imagine Communities Without Them’ research report by Lucy Marshall (2006).
Design for the ‘Silken Threads Floating Dreams’ exhibition with South-Asian, Egyptian and Pacific Island textile designers (2000)
NSW Governor Marie Bashir launches the Touching Base information website developed by IT and design students (2003)
Tribal Warrior, the 120 year old pearling lugger owned and operated by the Redfern-based Tribal Warrior Association - a long term Shopfront community partner.
Design students present ‘Playzone’, a computer game for children with autism (1998)
Completion certificates for the inaugural Shopfront Community Fellows (2001).
Business students work with International Help Fund Australia on a sponsorship and fundraising plan (2007)
Law students present their ‘Removing the Obstacles’ research report at the Arts Law Week panel on heritage buildings and disability access (2008)
Damien Spry signs copies of his Shopfront Research Series book, ‘Doing the Rights Thing’, at its launch on International Human Rights Day (2007)
UTS Vice Chancellor, Professor Ross Milbourne, and Shopfront staff accept an Australian Award for University Teaching at Parliament House (2005)
Welcome to UTS Shopfront
Shopfront is a gateway for community access to the University of Technology, Sydney. We link community organisations to UTS's knowledges, skills, resources and professional expertise to do community-initiated projects and community-engaged research with real social benefit.
Since 1996 more than 450 projects have been successfully completed with 560 community partners, nine university faculties, and more than 2,000 UTS staff and students.
Working with Us
We've created an environment where people with creativity and commitment work together to fulfil community goals. If you're motivated to make a difference, work with us on:
Free, community-initiated projects delivered by final-year or postgraduate students under academic supervision.Community-engaged research with high impact outcomes for communities of interest or practice beyond the university.
Accessing UTS staff expertise and advice for community programs and initiatives.
Brokering partnerships between the community, academics, government and business to contribute to the public good.
